Annual Report FY 2017
Georgia Statewide
Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
PCOM-Georgia Campus
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Emory University School of Medicine
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University AHEC Program Office
Morehouse School of Medicine AHEC Program Office Mercer University School of Medicine
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2017 is going out with a bang: major hurricanes plaguing the south and northeast, fires raging all over the west coast and north west—it is a time of great uncertainty and loss for so many Georgians and other Americans. But these events bring out the best in all of us, and showcase how our health care system mobilizes and responds to extraordinary events. Countless medical and health care professionals volunteered their time to staff emergency clinics, assist hospitals overwhelmed with patients and safety issues, and worked in emergency shelters throughout the country. It is humbling and exhilarating to watch what happens when people pull together in the same direction to address challenges.
Denise D. Kornegay, MSW Georgia Statewide AHEC Network Executive Director
But we should not have to experience loss and trauma to motivate us to work together. We have so many pressing needs that require us all to sacrifice, innovate, and collaborate to create the change needed. And we have unique opportunities before us. During the fall of 2017 the Georgia General Assembly has hosted numerous health and rural health committees and task forces, each seeking solutions to Georgia’s health care and rural economic development challenges. From these groups, numerous solutions have been identified and the opportunity to innovate, create, and refashion our strategies has occurred. In looking at strategies to improve the rural health economies, we looked at the economic impact of rural health professions workforce. In 2015, there were 19,021 total physicians in Georgia. Collectively, they supported: • an estimated 88,037 direct jobs, • an estimated 117,832 indirect jobs, • an estimated total of 205,869 jobs supported by the physician industry- or an average of 10.8 jobs per doctor. Source: The Economic Impact of Physicians in Georgia State Report, Published: March 2014 Prepared
The impact on Sales Tax and Revenues are impressive. In 2015, $29.7 billion in Sales Revenues were generated by physicians, representing 6.8% of the GSP/GDP in Georgia. Georgia physicians supported $16.6 billion in Wages and Benefits for their employees and created an estimated 205,869 jobs. They generated an estimated $1.1 billion in local and state tax revenues. Source: The State Level Economic Impact of Physicians Report (IMS Health, March 2014); US Bureau of Economic Analysis: Current‐Dollar GDP by State, 2012
Executive Director’s Letter
The impact per family physician per year was $1,028,774 ; the total impact of family physicians in the state was $1,674,844,376. Source: Robert Graham Center, AAFP, Economic Impact of Family Physicians. January 2015
So not only does increasing the healthcare workforce in the state create a healthier and more competitive workforce, the placement of providers in rural and underserved communities serve as a powerful economic development engine for those areas. Healthcare workforce supply and distribution are not the only challenges in our state, but they are clearly among the top issues that must be addressed. We
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need to systematically review our programs and initiatives, calculate returns on investments, and be prepared to boldly implement changes to create the outcomes our state needs. This is an unsettled time in our country. Politics seem at their worst, yet some incredibly bright minds are in key positions to initiate change. We must de-politicize healthcare and accept that all of us are quite vulnerable to the costs and access issues surrounding the receipt of qualified and high quality care. We have the best healthcare knowledge and skills in the world, but we have not found a system acceptable to the American people wherein to deliver health care effectively. We are making healthcare decisions based on politics rather than on data and knowledge. We are empowering those outside of the health care professions to make clinical decisions and to override decisions of physicians and other trained healthcare providers. What are we doing? We need to get this right and we need to do it now. The health of our citizens, ourselves, and our state are at risk if we do not demonstrate leadership and decisiveness. From the AHEC perspective, we are continually challenged by under resourced secondary schools across the state, communities with so many needs that it is hard to determine priorities, clinicians who are over worked and under compensated, families that want to make a change but are chained by medical costs beyond their means. But we continue to work and to thrive and along the way, measurable changes are occurring. Many are reflected in this annual report. 2017 has been an invigorating year. We welcomed Dr. Jane Nester as the new Center Director for the Magnolia Coastlands AHEC, and she is providing fresh insight for strategies to accomplish our mission. Our Boards of Directors are incredible: knowledgeable and committed community members from across the state who freely share their expertise and networks to accomplish our goals. To all of you working tirelessly to address Georgia’s health challenges, we salute you. Together, eventually, we will figure this out and have the healthcare system in our state that our citizens deserve. I anticipate with pleasure every partnership and collaboration that we will forge to make this happen. And from the AHECs, I pledge a 100% commitment to solving Georgia’s healthcare challenges.
Best wishes for a healthy 2018! Denise D. Kornegay, MSW Executive Director and Associate Dean, Georgia Statewide AHEC Network Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
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Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
FY 2017
(July 2016 - June 2017)
36,444 Participants
MISSION - Support the recruitment, training and retention of a diverse health professions workforce throughout Georgia. RECRUIT – Educate community members about health career choices and recruit future health professionals. TRAIN – Facilitate community-based clinical training experiences. RETAIN – Provide resources that assist and support health care professionals.
(June
RECRUIT:
RETAIN:
Expose students to health careers and develop intent to pursue post-secondary education in primary healthcare professions.
Address key issues in health professional shortage areas by providing health professionals with access to resources that support practice, reduce professional isolation, disseminate best practices, and improve quality of healthcare for medically underserved communities and health disparities populations.
23,672
total participants in 486 regional AHEC activities and programs
4,125
680
51% continuing education participants
participants in Intensive Health Careers Programs (20+ hours)
TRAIN:
Improves readiness, willingness, and ability of health professions trainees to serve in primary care, and rural and underserved community settings.
Provided 38,308 CME/CEU credit hours
facilitated
4,412 total student rotations
59%
51% indicated hours were necessary to meet clinical licensure requirements
Clinical training rotations provided in a Primary Care Setting
2,316
total health professions students with 696,370 hours of community-based clinical education/ training
41%
2,413 medical rotations 1,999 associated health professions rotations
Clinical training rotations provided in a Non-Primary Care Setting
Partnered with 1,267 professionals who served as clinical preceptors for students matriculating at educational institutions (located in and outside Georgia).
Supported Travel and Housing for 2,787 rotations
Provided health careers, clinical training, or continuing education services to 10,590 minority students, residents, trainees, or practicing health professionals.
383 AHEC supported health professions students completed their educational programs and returned to practice within the supporting AHEC region this year.
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January 2016 - December 2016 Georgia Preceptor Tax Incentive Program (PTIP):
Tax deductions of up to $10,000 for uncompensated community-based faculty physicians who provide training to medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students. PRECEPTORS:
PROGRAMS:
Georgia physicians who provide clinical training to health professions students for a minimum of three (to a maximum of 10) rotations, and who are not compensated through any other source, can claim a tax deduction of $1,000 for every 160 hours of training provided.
Students must be enrolled in one of the state’s public or private medical/osteopathic, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner programs. Georgia’s public and private colleges and universities must be able to utilize the full cadre of Georgia community-based physicians in order to educate the students matriculating in Georgia programs. 51%
305 Preceptors Qualified to Receive Deductions
719 Registered Preceptors
1,000,000 500,000
STUDENTS:
0
Enrolled in a Georgia Medical, PA
or NP Program.
Training Hours by School/Program 536,012 119,126 MD/DO
153,468
NP
PA
Total = 808,606
Type of Students The only rotations available to receive the deductions are: Family Medicine General Internal Medicine (inpatient and ambulatory) General Pediatrics OB/GYN Psychiatry Emergency Medicine General Surgery
19% 15%
MD/DO
66%
NP
PA
Statewide Area Health Education Centers Program Office at Augusta University administers the program and certifies rotations for the department.
Academic Programs PA NP MD/DO
5 16 5 0
10
20
Total = 26
$1,998,000 in deductions have been certified by the Statewide AHEC for 2016.
The tax deduction provides a reward to the community-based physician for these valuable community resources. 5
Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
FY 2017
(July 2016 - June 2017)
RECRUIT (June
educate community members about health career choices and recruit future health professionals RECRUIT:
VIDEOS:
Expose students to health careers and develop intent to pursue post-secondary education in primary healthcare professions.
23,672
total participants in 486 regional AHEC activities
4,083
and programs
Video views
25 Health Career Videos available for viewing at http://www.augusta.edu/ahec/careers/index.php
MANUAL: “Health Careers in
Georgia” is a comprehensive guide to health careers created for all individuals interested in a healthcare profession. The manual contains information on health careers as well as a number of additional resources. 80 Health Career Jobs What kind of work you would do How much money you would make How much education after High School Where you would go to School What qualities you need for the job High School roadmap Where to get money for school
Communities are experiencing a shortage of welltrained healthcare professionals. Health Careers videos allow students, teachers and adults to see opportunities in many fantastic careers that pay high dividends with job satisfaction, earning capacity, and mobility while touring the facilities 47% work. where health professionals
INTENSIVE PROGRAMS: Health Careers Programs consist of 20 + hours.
680
participants
34 intensive programs
1,390
distributed
Health Careers Programs:
Pathway to Med School Career Counseling Health Careers Camps Health Careers Presentations After School Programs Shadowing Opportunities
“Health Careers in Georgia”: http://bit.ly/2xxDpDX
Provided health careers trainings and activities to 9,249 minority students, teachers, and adults.
108 Counties in the state of Georgia have participants attending health career programs.
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Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
FY 2017
(July 2016 - June 2017)
TRAIN (June
Facilitate community-based clinical training experiences PRECEPTORS:
TRAIN:
Improves readiness, willingness, and ability of health professions trainees to serve in primary care, and rural and underserved community settings.
facilitated
4,412
1,267
total student rotations
preceptors
Community based clinical training integrates students into strong learning environments and develop professional networks – aiding in the retention of clinicians who train and complete residency programs in these communities. AHEC supports health profession students, preceptors and educational institutions by providing rotation placement assistance, housing, travel stipends, and preceptor development. Our complimentary services are available within all 159 Georgia counties.
Licensed healthcare providers who instruct, train and supervise health profession students during the clinical training portion of their educational studies. The training received from a preceptor allows the student to apply the knowledge received from the classroom in a real world setting. They also serve as mentors - can “open doors” and assist with gaining access to places and experiences students 47% may not have received otherwise.
101 Georgia counties have preceptors training students in community based clinical training sites. http://www.augusta.edu/ahec/careers/index.php served
2,316
ROTATIONS BY DISCIPLINE
students
3,000
2,413
2,000 1,000
938
524
329
208
PA
Nursing
NP
0 MD/DO
Other (Oral)
Series 1
provided
696,370
clinical training hours
2,583 Rotations in Primary Care Setting 1,829 Rotations in Non-Primary Care Setting
Provided community based clinical trainings to 857 minority students.
383 AHEC supported health professions students completed their educational programs and returned to practice within the supporting AHEC region this year.
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Georgia Statewide AHEC Network
FY 2017
(July 2016 - June 2017)
RETAIN
Provide resources that assist and(June support health care professionals RETAIN:
Address key issues in health professional shortage areas by providing health professionals with access to resources that support practice, reduce professional isolation, disseminate best practices, and improve quality of healthcare for medically underserved communities and health disparities populations.
2,085 participants indicated hours were necessary to meet clinical licensure requirements
4,125
Provided 38,308 CME/CEU credit hours
continuing education participants
Continuing Education Program Type The goal is to provide continuing educational offerings throughout Georgia for healthcare professionals seeking to expand their knowledge and skills on a continuum, increase their competency, and to maintain professional licensure and certification. Programs offered are:
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53
60 19
40 20
RN Re-entry Programs Cardiovascular Symposium Regional Infection Prevention Symposium Public Health Workforce Development Workshop Care That Spans a Lifetime: Overview of Population Health Zip Lining into Trends of Occupational Health Collaboration in Continuing Medical Education Conquering the Challenges of Leadership
0
Live
Live & Webbased
Web-based
Archived CE programs can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/2yI9XZt
Provided continuing education services to 484 minority practicing health professionals.
122 Counties in the state of Georgia have participants attending continuing education programs. 8
Georgia Statewide AHEC Network Funding FY2017 Operating Support
Federal Model AHEC State (DCH) Other - Federal Other - Local Total
13% 59% 4% 24% 100%
$579,910 $2,661,088 $181,731 $1,088,914 $4,511,643
Total funding support for the Georgia Statewide AHEC Network for this fiscal year was $4,511,643. The majority of these funds are provided by appropriated dollars from the Georgia General Assembly. These funds represent 59% of our total funding in the amount of $2,661,088. These are the core operating dollars for the six AHEC Center’s in our state. Other support includes the HRSA Model AHEC Point of Service grant in the amount of $579,910 and various other HRSA grants totaling $181,731. All other funding are local community supporters and revenue income in the amount of $530,894. The Program office at Augusta University is in part administratively supported by the university in the amount of $558,020 as a community support. 9
Georgia AHECs Blue Ridge AHEC
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Foothills AHEC
FOOTHILLS area health education center
Awards/ Grants
Awarded support from the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians Georgia Chapter in sponsorship of the 2017 Pathway to Med School Program. The Foothills AHEC Intensive Program Scholarship was developed to assist with tracking students after high school graduation. For four years, completers of an intensive health careers program are eligible to apply for the scholarship. The application provides Foothills AHEC with each student’s contact information and current status in their pursuit of a health career. Jordan Pruitt, the 2017 recipient of the scholarship, is a freshman at Mercer University with plans to pursue a career as a Physician Assistant. Tammy Guilbeau, one of our RN Reentry program graduates, recently received the Daisy Award at Northeast Georgia Health System. DAISY is an acronym for “Diseases Attacking the Immune System”. The award is sponsored by the Daisy Foundation to recognize nurses everywhere for their extraordinary clinical skills and compassion and the enormous difference they make in the lives of so many people every day.
Accomplishments
983 graduates supported in FY02 – FY17 have chosen to practice in the Foothills AHEC region. An additional 1,159 graduates choose to practice elsewhere in the state. Graduates have taken jobs in 29 of our 31 county service area. Since 2011 nine students completing the Brenau-PCOM PA Program have taken jobs in the region and two students within the state. Four students completing the Mercer PA Community Integration Program have taken jobs in the region and three students within the state. These two groups of students completed all community based clinical training in the Foothills AHEC region. In an effort to distribute services across the entire 31 counties we serve in Northeast Georgia, it is our goal that participants across all program areas will represent 75% of the counties in our region. In FY17 program participants were from 94% of our county service area.
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Magnolia Coastlands AHEC
Awards/ Grants/News • Awarded the Karl E. Peace Leadership Award for 2017 by the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society and the Gamma Theta Chapter at the JiannPing Hsu College of Public Health along with an induction ceremony in 2017 at Georgia Southern University. • Awarded funding from the Georgia State Office of Rural Health to provide student training opportunities through the Migrant Health Interdisciplinary Project. • With 20 years of service and the retirement of Mary Kate Pung as director, Magnolia Coastlands AHEC welcomes its new executive director, Jane Nester, DrPH. Dr. Nester has more than 25 years of healthcare leadership experience in management, education, teaching, research and grant writing.
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SOWEGA AHEC
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Awards/Grants
Awarded Metro Power grant in support of our Rural Health Leaders Intensive program held for 46 participants of the YMCA, Dougherty County School System and 21st Century Grant program. Received a donation from the Dougherty County Rotary Club in support of the Rural Health Leaders Intensive program. Received multiple awards to help underwrite the Pathway to Med School Program. Phase II of the Lupus Initiative Project with American College of Rheumatology and Healthcare Georgia Foundation was awarded and completed. Awarded American College of Rheumatology and NAO grant for a GME/CE event.
SPCC Atlanta AHEC
Awards/Grants •
Awarded a 1 Year Teen Health Literacy Project (HLP) Grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) through the National AHEC Organization (NAO). The goal of our project, entitled “Project InstaLife,” was to train 12 to 15 African American students to develop ways to communicate violence prevention strategies in their communities. 17 students completed the program. Various community partners worked in collaboration to conduct the program: National Coalition of 100 Black Men (Dekalb and South Metro Atlanta chapters); McNair High School; Fulton Leadership Academy; and Morehouse School of Medicine’s Prevention Research Center and Science Research Library. Components of the program included learning modules, social action campaigns, and mentoring: 1 ) Introduction to Health Disparities 2) Social Determinants of Health 3) Researching Health Information 4) Promoting Health In Your Community 5) Developing a Photo Voice Project 6) Utilizing Social Media to develop a Social Action Campaign
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Three Rivers AHEC Three Rivers AHEC • •
Established: 1994
Counties Served: 28
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RN Re-Entry Blue Ridge AHEC Out of 16 completing our RN Re-Entry program last year, 12 returned to the region to practice as full time RN’s. We have a 75% retention rate of RN Re-Entry candidates coming back to work in our region after completion of the program. Multiple clinical site agreements were signed over the past year increasing the options where students in the RN Re-Entry Program can do their required clinical training. To date, there is at least one clinical site for our RN ReEntry program in 18 of our 20 counties. Our RN Re-Entry program was featured in a Georgia Health News Article http://www.georgiahealthnews.com/2017/05/re-entry-program-brings-nurses-profession/ Foothills AHEC Foothills AHEC celebrated our 12th year of offering the RN Re-Entry Program. Since 2005 our RN Reentry program has assisted 111 RNs re-instate their license and join the nursing workforce. Ninety-five of these RNs have taken jobs in northeast Georgia or surrounding counties. SOWEGA In 2003, in order to address the RN shortage, SOWEGA-AHEC developed a RN Re-Entry program to tap into the lapsed license population that wanted to return to work. This year 5 participants enrolled bringing the overall total of 45 RNs that have reestablished their licenses and returned to work in southwest Georgia since 2003. With the success of the program, 3 other Georgia AHECs offer our RN Re-Entry program and over 200 nurses have returned to work throughout the state. SPCC Atlanta AHEC The Atlanta AHEC collaborated with Three Rivers AHEC with the expansion of the RN Re-Entry Program in the Atlanta area. Of the 7 RNs completing the program, 4 are now employed in the region. Three Rivers AHEC & Magnolia Coastlands AHEC • Three Rivers AHEC has offered the RN Re-Entry Program since 2010 in our region. Since 2015, we have coordinated the program for SPCC Atlanta and Magnolia Coastlands AHEC. There are 28 training sites available for the clinical training portion of the program: 18 Three Rivers, 6 SPCC-Atlanta, and 4 Magnolia Coastlands. • Since the program’s inception, 46 RNs have been trained and transitioned back into the workforce (32 in our region, 8 in SPCC Atlanta AHEC’s region, 4 Magnolia Coastlands AHEC’s region and 2 in other Georgia counties).
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Health Careers in Georgia Now in its 10th edition, Health Careers in Georgia is published every two years. The first edition was published in 1992 by the SOWEGA-AHEC and is now presented by Foothills AHEC. Over 3200 copies were distributed of the latest 2016 edition and many more users access the publication via the Web. Many community and academic partners contributed time, expertise, and resources in producing this manual for the current and future healthcare workforce. http://www.foothillsahec.org/health-careers-in-georgia-2016-2018
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Physician Assistant Rotations
Nursing Rotations
Nurse Practitioner Rotations
Other (includes Oral Health) Rotations
Total # of Student / Resident Rotations
Total # of Contacts in County
0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 3 2 2 22 16 3 3 22 5 0 0 7 17 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 21 0 0 1 1 2 1 13 2 0 0 16 10 9 3 0 0 116 34 2 2 2 1 6 7 11 26 0 0 23 2 0 0 62 37 0 0 134 20 3 3 0 0 17 15 1 1 34 5 1 1 9 4 100 6 36 52 0 1 3 2 167 114 2 4 0 0 0 0 5 3 7 1 119 4 0 0
Medicine Rotations
228 0 340 0 44 0 60 1,771 0 50 17 35 76 94 112 882 98 0 0 0 42 114 58 30 120 0 577 243 179 62 117 0 148 69 27 130 82 100 0 4 84 0 122 1,037 265 0 602 126 0 346 213 37 21 0
# of Graduates Remaining in Sponsoring AHEC Region
9 7 1 0 9 1 9 9 1 16 32 3 3 6 6 454 0 0 0 4 2 8 3 2 98 1 2 11 78 0 4 1 40 15 21 16 8 8 2 18 2 8 9 150 2 0 129 10 14 0 11 0 3 1
# of Preceptors
County
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans
# of Participants in Continuing Education Programs # of Participants in Health Career Programs # Primary Care Rotations
2017 Performance Overview By County
0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 5 1 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 31 0 0 1 2 1 2 2 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 2 56 1 22 0 5 1 0 0 1 36 0 1 0 14 0 24 7 0 172 2 0 3 8 0 1 0 85 0 55 6 0 2 1 5 0 5 11 69 0 0 209 2 0 0 3 7 19 0
0 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 13 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 1 29 11 0 2 31 1 0 0 2 0 44 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 0 0 0 1 0 21 0 0 18 0 41 0 2 58 1 5 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 0 1 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 55 0 0 2 9 0 24 0 6 0 73 0 0 3 0 4 0 1 22 10 0 0 98 1 0 0 0 0 72 0
0 0 0 5 2 2 60 4 23 0 28 1 0 0 1 76 0 1 2 14 0 32 9 0 228 2 2 8 45 0 25 0 103 0 165 6 0 46 1 50 1 12 122 92 5 3 371 4 0 0 5 7 136 0
237 7 341 11 59 8 169 1,791 51 67 106 43 79 100 122 1,489 98 3 5 35 44 180 82 32 617 7 584 275 370 62 171 2 392 85 369 160 90 189 5 113 89 33 359 1,373 273 8 1,402 146 14 346 237 52 283 2
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Total # of Contacts in County
Total # of Student / Resident Rotations
Other (includes Oral Health) Rotations
Nurse Practitioner Rotations
Nursing Rotations
Physician Assistant Rotations
Medicine Rotations
# of Graduates Remaining in Sponsoring AHEC Region
# Primary Care Rotations # of Preceptors
# of Participants in Continuing Education Programs # of Participants in Health Career Programs
County
Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding
7 94 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 104 6 0 9 6 1 4 10 1 0 0 15 37 22 846 89 52 0 78 6 0 1 76 161 1,170 21 0 16 11 1 7 2 3 4 0 16 65 1 78 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 85 1,263 1,378 215 97 8 171 19 2 2 112 306 3,267 4 0 3 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 12 0 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75 22 0 48 19 0 96 0 3 0 0 99 188 3 11 31 6 1 34 3 0 1 0 38 90 4 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 111 1 163 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 167 219 89 24 34 46 40 5 3 2 4 54 466 9 49 16 10 9 13 1 5 1 6 26 119 241 1,545 141 90 88 72 65 18 49 66 270 2,375 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 84 4 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 95 13 573 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 586 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 217 5 5 5 3 3 0 0 0 6 250 61 85 120 48 1 179 2 4 0 0 185 500 14 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17 18 184 19 5 3 24 0 0 0 0 24 253 3 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 9 3 280 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 283 2 165 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 170 0 205 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 207 0 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 131 8 275 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 283 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 59 11 0 6 5 0 2 4 0 0 1 7 29 43 371 10 4 2 8 2 0 0 0 10 440 3 0 21 10 3 14 13 0 0 0 27 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 121 29 20 5 39 28 1 0 32 100 289 3 130 6 4 5 2 1 0 3 0 6 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 57 3 80 7 1 1 7 0 0 0 0 7 99 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 4 0 20 2 0 1 0 23 28 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 22 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 29 3 88 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 94 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 126 7 2 0 7 0 0 0 0 7 142 137 375 220 145 19 268 51 5 50 152 526 1,422 2 33 1 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 41 17 433 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 455 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 18 1,335 6 3 1 6 0 2 0 0 8 1,371
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Total
Total # of Contacts in County
Total # of Student / Resident Rotations
Other (includes Oral Health) Rotations
Nurse Practitioner Rotations
Nursing Rotations
Physician Assistant Rotations
Medicine Rotations
# of Graduates Remaining in Sponsoring AHEC Region
# Primary Care Rotations # of Preceptors
# of Participants in Continuing Education Programs # of Participants in Health Career Programs
County
Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Unknown Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Other States Other Countries
7 18 26 3 1 22 0 0 4 0 26 81 6 0 32 6 0 4 18 2 9 1 34 78 4 0 5 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 15 2 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 0 636 6 4 0 5 0 1 3 0 9 655 1 37 0 1 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 48 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 45 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 25 98 147 75 28 160 23 8 0 4 195 568 4 75 8 9 0 8 1 1 0 1 11 107 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 190 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 195 3 13 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 21 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 103 12 8 2 7 1 0 4 1 13 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 7 32 14 1 28 0 12 3 11 54 119 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 354 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 8 4 0 5 1 0 2 0 8 22 33 172 8 18 2 4 10 0 3 55 72 305 110 22 46 16 6 55 0 0 2 5 62 262 4 0 16 8 1 13 4 8 0 0 25 54 0 42 7 2 0 7 0 0 0 1 8 59 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 349 65 20 3 75 3 28 0 2 108 555 4 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 90 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 197 6 129 17 14 3 8 9 2 2 1 22 191 1 1,244 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1,248 9 219 15 6 2 22 0 0 0 0 22 273 29 0 5 1 1 6 4 0 0 0 10 46 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 25 4 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 4 34 5 0 10 5 1 3 12 0 0 0 15 36 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 68 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 76 3 90 14 7 1 10 2 0 0 6 18 133 1 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 18 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 109 7 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 7 136 212 540 2 6 0 10 0 0 1 1 12 772 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4,125
23,672 2,583 1,269
383 2,413
20
524
329
208
938
4,412
36,444
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